Belgium and Germany need to open their own 'coffee-shops' and regulate the sale of cannabis drugs so that fewer 'drugs-tourists' will be forced to cross the border to the Netherlands, the Mayor of the Dutch city of Maastricht says.
That’s Dutch matter-of-factly politic thinking. Quite unique in Europe, but easier said than done. To take a look at Germany, the Dutch coffee shop model at its current state wouldn’t fit into their standards. It’s still shady and unregulated and cultivation is still criminalized. Amendments to the "gedoogdbeleid" are long-needed.
Remember the "Deutsche Gründlichkeit"; it would at least last 10+ years to reform the narcotics law. Because Germany, on the one hand, makes a great deal of money with the cannabis prohibition, not only with criminal proceedings but also with driver’s license revocations and all the psychological testing implicated. But this doesn’t cover the costs for the prosecution, on the other hand. If tax receipts would do so, is questionable and would need a lot of rough calculations first. Well-regulated laws concerning cultivation, disposition and taxes would be necessary and therefore a lot of debates.
Also police agents became unemployed, according to the fact that in Germany 130.000 cannabis related offences average out at 110 Million € a year. Just imagine how many officers are needed to deal with the 131.587 offences, arisen in 2004. Should they re-educate all redundant police officers to ganja farmers or shop dealers?
Besides, the previous drug history causes a different thinking about the whole drug topic in German society. They brought the first Heroine on the market, in WWII half of the nation was up to meth and morphine and after war, Germany accepted every prohibition law the American liberators proposed. The (to) powerfull conservative and Christian party’s like CDU and CSU act like American lap dogs, so changes in the German cannabis policy are unlikely, unless other significant (European) countries would set a good example first. Unfortunately the Dutch example isn’t good enough right now.
In my opinion Dutch politicians would be better off by improving the existing shop model, in place off shifting the responsibility to the neighbour countries. Regulating the cannabis supply to eliminate the criminal circuit and taxation may be the first necessary steps, in order to obtain international acceptance for our unique (and praised) soft drug policy.
By the way, this is my first post. Hoi ihr Nutten
but the only problem is that his party is really anti drugs, christen democrates i think they are. and he is the only guy who thinks like that. 
